Bill Gates Sees Disruptive Changes Ahead

[mandy]

Aiming to stir up the same kind of momentum as his Internet Tidal Wave memo of a decade earlier, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has penned a memo outlining the challenges Microsoft faces from a host of online competitors.

In a 30 October email to top Microsoft employees, Gates said: "This coming 'services wave' will be very disruptive. We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us."

In the memo, Gates cites an earlier missive from Ray Ozzie, outlining the importance of tapping online advertising and services as new revenue sources...

In the memo, Ozzie talks about Google as Microsoft's most prominent of the emerging competitors but also makes reference to Apple and Yahoo!....

full article: http://management.silicon.com/itdirector...041,00.htm

[misteroriginal]

I can't believe he didn't mention Tulip Tools!!!